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PATENTED JAN. 8, 1907.

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APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 7, 1905.

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ETHAN I. nouns. or PULLMAN, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THEPULLMAN COMPANY, OF cHIcAeo. ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION or ILLINOIS,"

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To all whom-it may concern: I

Be it known that I, ETHAN I. Donns, a citizen of" the United States, residing at Pullman, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in."End Constructions for Cars, of which the following is a specification.

. My invention relates articularly. to me tallic' endstakes for ra' way-cars and their means of attachment to the underfrarne of flange connected by a web, the inner flange being riveted to the :end sill and preferab to a transverse angle-bar above it, the web the car; but it also includes improvements in ortions of-the underframe itself. .The sta es' each have an inner and an outer bein secured. to the web of the draft or center s1 1 and to an ear of a buffer or face plate, the outer fiangebeing fastened to the main portion of the buffer-plate. By such a conatruction the parts are. firmly bound to- ,gether, thelower end of the stake being pard'erframe, and Fig. 6-is a-vertical longitudinal bufferor ace late being removed to more clearly show t e details of the structure.

Fig; 3 is a horizontal section of-a portion of the car-frame on line3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the buffer or face plate. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the car-unsection of a metallic car embodying .my invention.

-The spaced channel-beams 10, which may be either the center or draft sills of the car, have attached to their inner surfaces draft-lugs 11 11, fillet-plates 12 being interposed between the lugs and the webs 10 of the sills. The top flanges 10 of these sills 10' are near their ends cut away on transverse lines 13 to provide-for the passageof the end stakes described below, while the channel end sills 14 have their upper flanges stakes I-employ structures 16, (shown most 14; cut away on transverse lines 15 to pro vide spaces for the flanges 10"--. For end Specification of Letters Patent.

' Application filed September 7,1905. Serial No. 277,431.

horizonta I "flanges 26 and 27. A short angle-bar 23, Figs. 1 and 6, is riveted to the depending ratta Jan. 8; 1907.

clearly in Figs. 1, 2, and 6,) each'of which includes a normal flange 17 ,lto which the car end planks '18 and coping angle-bar 18" are bolted or otherwise secured; a web ,19, which is' riveted to the outer surface or side face of web 10*, and an outer flange 20, which is shorter than and parallel to flange 17 and which is tapered toward the web in both directions, as shown in Figs. 1. and 2. The portions 21 and 21 of-each stake, which comprise prolongations of web, 19 beyond flange 20, are tapered toward the normal flange 17.at the ends of the stake, as is clearly illustrated in Fig. 6. Face or bufl'er late 22,

FIg, 4, com rises a main flat vertica portion 23, provide with a rectangular recess 24 for of the coupler-shank and a'flat the passage portion 25, having upstanding legs of buffer or face plate 23, tying t e same together, the bar bein also secured to the lower flanges 10 of sil s 10, with a wearingplate 23 interposed therebetween. When all the arts are in place, the webs 19 of the end sta es are riveted to the outer surfaces of the webs 10 of channels 10 and to the upri ht flanges 26 of the buffer orface plate T e inner normal flanges 17 are riveted to the outer surfaces of webs 14 of channel end sills 14 and to the transverse angle-bar 28, which is fastened to the upper flanges 14 of the end sills, and the'outer tapering flanges 20'are riveted to the endsof t portion 23 qf the" bufl'ereplate;

It should be" noted "that the tops of the flanges 10 and 1 1i are in the same horizontal 'e nain plate plane, the end portions of end-sill webs 14 fitting in the spaces between the ends of flanges 10 and the surfaces of flanges 17. A

coping'angle-bar 18 is supplied at the top edge of each end of the car, being bolted or otherwise fastened tothe upper end plank and to the inner flanges of the end stakes.

In the underframe illustratedin Fig. 5 I have shownwooden longitudinal beams 29 bolted to the angles 28 and resting upon and bolted to body-bolsters 30 and cross-bearers 31, the floor-planks of the car being attached to bea1rs'29. Although I have shown the center sills 10in Fig. 5 extending beyond the end of the 'car, it will be apparent that such'construction may represent either integral exensions of the center sills or draft-sills secured to=said center sills, the'endstakes be- 28, the inner flanges of the stakes being riveted to the end plates 33, as 'is clearly shown.

: rinciple or A coping angle-iron 34 is fastened to end plates 33 and to the inner flanges of end stake 16;, its horizontal flange overlapping the up er ends of the end stakes. Other: wise tflb construction is substantially the same as that described above in connection with Figs. 1 to 5, inclusive; I

Minor mechanical changes may be made in this construction without departing from the substance of my invention as deed in the appended claims. I claim'- v I p 1. A car-stake having a web with flanges ofunequal length on its'op osite edges, one

. of said flanges being tapere substantially as described. g

V 2. A car-stake having two flanges of unequal length and a web connecting said flanges, said web being prolonged and tapered beyond an end of the shorter flange, substantially as described.

3. A car-stake having two flanges of unequal length and aweb connecting said flanges, said vweb being rolonged and taperedbeyond: both ends 0 the shorter flange, substantially as described.

4. A car-stake having two parallel flanges of unequal length, one of the same being tapered, and a web connecting said flanges, saidwebbe ing rolonged and ta ered beyond an'end of the's orter flange, s u stantially as described.

5. In a railwa -car, the combination of a longitudinal sill having a web, an end stake having a web and inner and outer flanges, an

end sill, and a buffer or face plate, the inner "flange of said end stake being secured .to said end sill, the outer flange of said end stake being'secured ,to said bufl'eror face plate, and

the web 'of said end stake being secured to the web of said longitudinal sill, substantially as described.

6. In a railway-car, thecombination of a" longitudinal sill having a flange at its upper I edge, said flange being'cut away for a portion of the length of the sill inwardly from the end thereof, an end stake having a web and an inner and outer flange, an end sill, and a buf- ,fer or face plate, the inner flange of said-end 7. In a railway-car, the coinbination of a V longitudinal sill having a vertical portion, an end stake having a web and an inner and outer flange, an end sill, a transverse anglebar, and a buffer or face plate, the inner flange of said end stake being secured tosaid end sill and transverse angle-bar, the outer flange of said stake being secured to said buffer or face plate, and the web of said end.

stake being secured to said vertical portion of the longitudinal sill, substantially as described.

8.- In a railway-car, the combination of a longitudinal sill having a vertical portion, an end stake having a web and an inner and outer flange, an end sill, and a buffer or face plate having an upturned flange, theinner flange of said end stake-being secured to said end sill, the outer flange of said'end stake be ing secured to said bufl'er or face plate, and the web of said end stake-being secured to said vertical p rtion of the longitudinal sill and to said flan eof the buffer or face plate, substantially as described.

9. In a railway-car, the combination of a the car-body, and having a vertical portion, a channel end stake, an end sill, a transverse angle-bar riveted to said end sill, and a buffer or face platehaving an upstanding flange, the inner flange of said-end stake being se- .9 longitudinal sill projecting beyond the end of cured to said end sill [and to said transverse angle-bar, the outer flange of. said endstake being secured to said buffer or face plate, and

' the web of said end stake being secured to ETHAN I.-DODDS.Y

Witnesses:

FREDERICK C. Goon'wm', WALTER M. FULLER.

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